You’ve probably come across presets for Lightroom that claim to create the film look on your pictures. And while some really do the job, most of the times it depends on the picture and rarely does a preset works by itself. Therefore if you want to really make the film look perfect, you’ll need to know […]
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No camera or lens is perfect and quite often you will get a different result in your images to what you remember seeing. Quite often, this is just a factor of our gear not being as sophisticated as a human eye. But there are a few common issues to do with lenses that are quite […]
Lightroom is an amazing app. Capable of cataloguing and editing tens of thousands of RAW images all from the click of a mouse. Despite it’s slick interface and beautifully presented images, Lightroom is, at heart, just a big database. The problem with databases is that as they get bigger, so they can slow down and […]
While not an exciting post processing action, using the spot removal tool is a necessary step in cleaning your photograph. From dust on the sensor to a distracting imperfection, an image can go from ‘great’ to ‘ok’ as a result of not paying attention to details. We’ll explore when and how to use Lightroom’s spot […]
Adobe Lightroom offers two excellent tools for increasing the apparent contrast and saturation of an image without resorting to taking everything to the max. These are the Clarity and Vibrance sliders found at the bottom of the Basic tab in the Develop module under Presence. Let’s take a look at what they can do for […]
Composite images, if they are realistic enough, require some trickery to be created properly. It requires both photographing and post-processing skills in order to do it right. However, the skill you’ll need in post-processing is, in this case, of far greater importance than the skill required for taking the photos themselves. For this tutorial, I’ve […]